Henry Rollins Quotes

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

I go without sleep, I just go hard.

I've been tired since I was 15.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

I'm a terrible sleeper because I work all the time. I stay up late almost every night working, whether it's on a TV or live show. I come up with new ideas, do research, watch loads of TED talks, or find psychology articles.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.